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If you’re the kind of smartphone owner who’s just gotta have the latest and greatest device all the time, you probably started salivating with Wednesday’s announcement from T-Mobile about its new JUMP program.

Remember the clear-silicone Rocketfish case I bought for my new iPhone 5? I praised it, but expressed concern that, like a lot of clear products, it would yellow. Well, it did just that, but went even further – it turned a light, greenish-black. Yuck. I replaced it with an old favorite. …

How much time do you think you spend per day on your smartphone? If you’re like me, you use it in small chunks – checking email while hurrying to a meeting, scrolling through Twitter while waiting for an elevator, watching an episode of “Arrested Development” on the treadmill, texting my family, checking the bio of …

Shortly after Samsung’s Galaxy S4 smartphone made its way into early buyers’ hands, complaints about its storage capacity began to fill the Web. The 16-GB model comes with just under 9 GB of free space – nearly half of it taken up with the operating system and pre-installed applications from Samsung and carriers. CNet asked …

Regular readers know that I came very, very close to switching to Android last year, lured first by the original HTC One and then Samsung’s Galaxy S3. But the iPhone 5 was good enough to keep me in the Apple fold, at least for the two years that I’m shackled to my AT&T contract. I’m …

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook is cuddling up to Google by using Android in a modified version of the search giant’s mobile operating system. But the social networking giant is also making a big bet with the changes: that the world of smartphone users wants its phones centered on friends and contacts — rather than …

Houston was among the first cities to get LTE when Verizon, AT&T and Sprint launched their respective versions of the 4G wireless data network. If a leak to the TmoNews site is correct, Houston also will be an initial market when T-Mobile finally launches its own LTE network on March 26. T-Mobile reportedly plans to …

T-Mobile announced in December that it was planning to radically change the way it sold phones and service plans. The company said it will dump subsidies for handsets, and cut the costs of its voice, text and data plans as a benefit. That’s very different from the way wireless carriers have operated in the United …

In a glitzy presentation at New York City’s Radio City music hall, Samsung unveiled its newest smartphone, the Galaxy S4, which will be available in the second quarter of this year. No pricing was revealed – Samsung would only say it will be priced like a premium smartphone. Expect to see it on all major …

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